“Tin Pan Alley” Songs

Philadelphia Main Line Ukulele Group

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Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music

publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United

States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The name originally

referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth

Avenue in Manhattan. - Wikipedia

AIN’T SHE SWEET w-Jack Yellen m-Milton Ager 4/4 1…2…1234

Ain’t she sweet? See her coming down the street.

Now I ask you very confidentially, Ain’t she sweet?

Ain’t she nice? Look her over once or twice.

Now I ask you very confidentially, ain’t she nice?

Just cast an eye in her direction

Oh, me! Oh, my! Ain’t that perfection?

I re- peat, don’t you think that’s kind of neat?

And I ask you very confidentially Ain’t she sweet?

AIN’T WE GOT FUN? 4/4 1…2…1234

Every mornin’, every evenin’, ain’t we got fun? Not much money, oh, but honey, ain’t we got fun?

The rent’s unpaid, dear, we haven’t a car, but any-way, dear, we’ll stay as we are.

Even if we owe the grocer, don’t we have fun? Tax collector’s getting closer, still we have fun.

There’s nothing sur - er, the rich get rich and the poor get poorer.

In the meantime, in between time, ain’t we got fun?

This economy’s so gosh-darned fun!

ALL I DO IS DREAM OF YOU 4/4 1...2...1234

All I do is dream of you the whole night through. With the dawn I still go on and dream of you

You're every thought, you're everything, you're every song I ever sing

Summer, winter, autumn and spring.

And were there more than twenty-four hours a day, they'd be spent in sweet content, dreaming away.

When skies are grey, when skies are blue, morning, noon and nighttime too,

All I do the whole day through is dream of you.

All I do is dream of you the whole night through. With the dawn I still go on and dream of you

You're every thought, you're everything, you're every song I ever sing

All I do the whole day through is dream of you

All I do the whole day through is dream....of...... you. 4 4

BYE BYE BLACKBIRD w. Mort Dixon m. Ray Henderson

Pack up all my cares and woes, here I go singin’ low

Bye bye black-bird

Where somebody waits for me, sugar’s sweet, so is she

Bye bye blackbird

No one here to love and understand me

Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me

Make my bed and light the light, I’ll arrive late tonight

1. (repeat) Blackbird, bye bye. 1234 1234

2. Blackbird, blackbird, blackbird, bye bye. 1234 1234 1234 1234 1234 1234 12 34 1…

BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA 4/4 1…2…12

HIT G

By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea, you and me, you and me, oh, how happy we’ll be

When each wave comes a-roll – ing in we will duck or swim

And we’ll float and look around the water

Over and under and then up for air, Pa is rich, Ma is rich, so now what do we care?

I love to be beside your side, beside the sea, beside the seaside, by the beautiful sea. 1234 1(STOP,REPEAT) CODA: Repeat the last line.

BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON 4/4 1…2…123

By the light of the silvery moon, I want to spoon, to my honey I’ll croon love’s tune

Honey-moon, keep a shinin’ in June

Your silvery beams will bring love’s dreams,

We’ll be cuddlin’ soon, by the silvery moon.

By the light (not the dark, but the light) of the silvery moon (not the sun, but the moon)

I want to spoon (not knife, but spoon), to my honey I’ll croon love’s tune.

Honey-moon, (not the sun, but the moon), keep a’shinin’ in June (not May, but June)

Your silvery beams will bring love’s dreams, we’ll be cuddlin’ soon, (not later, but soon) .

By the silvery moon (not the gold – en moon!)

CAROLINA IN THE MORNING

Nothing could be finer than to be in Caro-li-na in the morn---ing,

No one could be sweeter than my sweetie when I meet her in the morn---ing.

Where the morning glories twine around the door,

Whispering pretty stories I long to hear once more.

Strolling with my girlie where the dew is pearly early in the morn---ing,

Butterflies all flutter up and kiss each little buttercup at dawn--ing,

If I had Aladdin’s lamp for only a day, I’d make a wish and here’s what I’d say:

Nothing could be finer than to be in Caro-li-na in the morn---------ing.

DOWN BY THE OLD MILL STREAM 4/4 1234 1 (without intro)

Intro:

Down by the old mill stream, where I first met you.

With your eyes of blue, dressed in ging - ham too

And it was there I knew that you loved me too

You were six-teen, my village queen, down by the old mill stream

Down by the old (not the new but the old) mill stream (not the river but the stream),

Where I first (not the last but the first) met you. (not me but you.)

With your eyes (not your ears, but your eyes) of blue (not green, but blue).

Dressed in ging- (not silk but ging-) -ham too. (not one but two.)

p. 2 Down By the Old Mill Stream

And it was there (not here, but there), I knew (not old, but new)

That you loved (not hate, but loved) me too. (not one but two.)

You were six-teen (not seventeen, but sixteen), my village queen! (Not the king, but the queen).

Down by the old (not the new, but the old), mill stream (not the river, but the stream).

FIVE FOOT TWO w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young m. Ray Henderson

4/4 1…2…1234

Five foot two, eyes of blue, but, oh, what those five feet could do!

Has anybody seen my gal?

Turned up nose, turned down hose, flapper, yes sir, one of those!

Has anybody seen my gal?

Now if you run into a five foot two covered with fur,

STOP Diamond rings, and all those things, betcha life it isn't her!

But could she love, could she woo, could she, could she, could she coo!

1 REPEAT (fast, after count) Has anybody seen my gal?

2 Has anybody seen my, anybody seen my, anybody seen my gal?

FOR ME AND MY GAL w. Edgar Leslie, E. Ray Goetz 4/4 1234 1 m. George W. Meyer

The bells are ringing for me and my gal

The birds are singing for me and my gal.

Everybody’s been knowing to a wedding they’re going

And for weeks they’ve been sewing, every Susie and Sal.

They’re congregating for me and my gal.

The parson’s waiting for me and my gal.

(SLOWER) And someday we’re gonna build a little home for two

Or three or four, or more,

In Loveland for me and my gal (for me and my gal).

GOODNIGHT, SWEETHEART, GOODNIGHT 4/4 1…2…1234

Goodnight, sweet-heart, well it’s time to go

Goodnight, sweet-heart, well it’s time to go

1. : 2. I hate to leave you, but I really must say, good-night, sweet-heart, good-night.

Well, it’s three o’clock in the morning, baby, I just can’t treat you right

Well, I hate to leave you, baby, don’t mean maybe, be-cause I love you so.

Goodnight, sweet-heart, well it’s time to go

Goodnight, sweet-heart, well It’s time to go

I hate to leave you, but I really must say, good-night, sweet-heart, good-night.

p.2 Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight

Now, my mother and my father, they might hear if I stay here too long,

One kiss and we’ll part, and you’d better be going, al-though I hate to see you go

Goodnight, sweet-heart, well it’s time to go

Goodnight, sweet-heart, well It’s time to go

I hate to leave you, but I really must say,

Good-night, sweet-heart, good-night, sweet-heart,

Good-night, sweet-heart, good-night RITARD 3 3

HELLO! MA BABY 4/4 1…2…1234

Hello, my baby, hello, my honey, hello my ragtime gal

Send me a kiss by wire; baby my heart’s on fire 2 2 2

If you refuse me, honey, you’ll lose me, then you’ll be left alone

Oh baby, telephone, and tell me I’m your own. 4 4 4 4

TOOT, TOOT, TOOTSIE!

Toot, Toot, Tootsie, good-bye, Toot, Toot, Tootsie don’t cry

The choo choo train that takes me, away from you no words can tell how sad it makes me

Kiss me, Tootsie, and then, do it over a-gain.

Watch for the mail, I’ll never fail, if you don’t get a letter then you’ll know I’m in jail. Oh, oh, oh

Tut, tut, Tootsie, don’t cry, Toot, Toot, Tootsie, good-bye. 12345 7

IF YOU KNEW SUSIE 4/4 1…2…1234

VERSE: (sing G)

I have got a sweetie known as Susie; in the words of Shakespeare she’s a “wow”

Though all of you may know her too, I’d like to shout right now: CHORUS: (sing D)

If you knew Susie like I know Susie, Oh! Oh! Oh! what a girl!

There’s none so class-y as this fair lassie, Oh! Oh! Holy Moses! what a chassis! She wears long tress-es and nice tight dresses, Oh! Oh! What a future she possesses.

We went riding, she didn’t balk; back from Yonkers, I’m the one that had to walk Out in public how she can yawn in a parlor you would think the war was on

If you knew Susie like I know Susie,

1. (repeat) Oh! Oh! What a girl!

2. Oh! Oh! What a girl! Oh! Oh! What a girl! 5 1

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME 3/4 123 1

In the good old summertime, in the good old summer-time

Strolling through the shady lanes with your baby mine.

You hold her hand and she holds yours and that’s a very good sign

REPEAT That she’s your tootsie-wootsie in the good old summer-time.

I WANT A GIRL 4/4 1…2…1234

Intro: Last line followed by C7

I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old Dad

She was a pearl and the only girl that Daddy ever had

A real old fashioned girl with heart so true,

One who loves nobody else but you.

Oh, I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old Dad

LIDA ROSE 4/4 1...2...1234

Lida Rose, I'm home again, Rose, to get the sun back in my sky

Lida Rose, I'm home again, Rose, about a thou - sand kiss - es shy

Ding, dong, ding, I can hear the chapel bell chime

Ding, dong, ding, at the least sugges-tion, I'll pop the question.

Lida Rose, I'm home again, Rose, without a sweetheart to my name

Lida Rose, now everyone knows that I am hop - ing you're the same

So here is my love song, not fancy or fine, Lida Rose, oh won't you be mine?

So here is my love song, not fancy or fine, Lida Rose, oh won't you be mine?

Lida Rose, oh, Li - da Rose..... Lida Rose, oh, Li - da Rose

MARIE 4/4 1...2...123 Intro: 2nd line

Ma-rie, the dawn is breaking. Ma - rie, you'll soon be waking

To find your heart is a - ching, and tears will fall as you re-call

The moon in all its splendor, the kiss, so very tender

The words will you sur-ren - der to me, Ma - rie

OH! YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL 4/4 1…2…1234

Oh! You beautiful doll, you great big beautiful doll

Let me put my arms about you

I could never live without you

Oh! You beautiful doll, you great big beautiful doll

If you ever leave me, how my heart would ache

I want to hug you but I fear you’d break

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! You beautiful doll.

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (Band version) 4/4 1…2…1234

Every time it rains it rains pennies from heaven

Don’t you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven

You’ll find your fortune falling all over town

Just be sure that your umbrella is upside down

Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers

If you want the things you love, you must have showers

So, if you hear it thunder, don’t run under a tree

1. (Repeat) There’ll be pennies from heaven, for you and me.

2. There’ll be pennies from heaven, there’ll be pennies from heaven

There’ll be pennies from heaven, for you and me. 1-2 3-4 1-2 3-4 1-2 3 4 TEQUILA!

PUT ON A HAPPY FACE 4/4 1...2...1234

Gray skies are gonna clear up, put on a happy face

Brush off the clouds and cheer up, put on a happy face

Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy, it's not your style

You'll look so good that you'll be glad you de-cided to smile

Pick out a pleasant outlook, stick out that noble chin.

Wipe off that full of doubt look, slap on a happy grin

And spread sunshine all over the place,

Just put on a hap - py face.

SHINE ON HARVEST MOON Hit F chord 4/4 1…2…1234

Shine on, shine on harvest moon, up in the sky.

I ain’t had no lovin’ since January, February, June or July.

Snow time ain’t no time to stay out-doors and spoon,

So shine on, shine on harvest moon, for me and my gal.

MOONLIGHT BAY

We were sailing along on Moonlight Bay.

We could hear the voices singing; they seemed to say,

“You have stolen my heart, now don’t go ‘way,”

As we sang love’s old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.

SIDE BY SIDE 4/4 1…2…123

Oh, we ain’t got a barrel of mo- ney, maybe we’re ragged and fun- ny,

But we’ll travel a-long, singin’ a song, side by side. 1 3 2 4

Oh, we don’t know what’s comin’ tomor- row, maybe it’s trouble and sor - row,

But we’ll travel the road, sharin’ our load, side by side.

Through all kinds of weather, what if the sky should fall?

Just as long as we’re together, it doesn’t matter at all.

When they’ve all had their quarrels and part- ed, we’ll be the same as we start- ed,

Just a’travellin’ a-long, singin’ a song, side…….by……side.

ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET 4/4 1…2…123

Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worries on the door - step

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street

Can’t you hear a pitter pat and that happy tune is your step

Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street

I used to walk in the shade with the blues on pa-rade

Now I’m not a-fraid, this rover crossed over

If I never have a cent I’ll be rich as Rocke-fel -- ler

Gold dust at my feet on the sunny side of the street

TEQUILA! On the sunny, on that sunny side of the street.

SWINGING ON A STAR

Intro: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3

Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar?

STOP And be better off than you are? Or would you rather be a mule?

A mule is an animal with long funny ears, Kicks up at anything he hears.

His back is brawny but his brain is weak, He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak.

And by the way, if you hate to go to school, You may grow up to be a mule.

Or would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar?

STOP And be better off than you are? Or would you rather be a pig?

A pig is an animal with dirt on his face; his shoes are a terrible dis-grace.

He has no manners when he eats his food, he's fat and lazy and ex-tremely rude;

But if you don't care a feather or a fig, you may grow up to be a pig.

p.2 Swingin’ On a Star

Or would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar?

STOP And be better off than you are? Or would you rather be a fish?

A fish won't do anything, but swim in a brook; he can't write his name or read a book.

To fool the people is his only thought, and though he's slippery, he still gets caught;

But then if that sort of life is what you wish, you may grow up to be a fish.

And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo; every day you meet quite a few.

So you see it's all up to you -- You can be better than you are,

or You..could..be..swing..in'..on..a..star, 4 4 2 2 2

WHEN YOU WORE A TULIP 4/4 1…2…123

When you wore a tulip, a sweet yellow tulip, and I wore a big red rose

When you caressed me, ‘twas then Heaven blessed me

What a blessing no one knows

You made life cheerie, when you called me dearie

‘Twas down where the blue grass grows

Your lips were sweeter than julep, when you wore that tulip

And I wore a big red rose.

YES, SIR, THAT’S MY BABY 4/4 1…2…1234

Yes, sir, that’s my baby, no, sir, I don’t mean maybe

Yes, sir, that’s my baby now.

Yes, ma’am we’ve decided, no, ma’am we won’t hide it

Yes ma’am you’re invited now.

By the way, by the way, when we reach the preacher I’ll say

Yes, sir, that’s my baby, no, sir, I don’t mean maybe

Yes, sir, that’s my baby now.